John Russel Houser was both a supporter of the far-right Tea Party, the extremist Christian Westboro Baptist Church and even Adolf Hitler web accounts connected to the 59-year-old Louisiana theater shooter reveal.

Houser, who went by the name Rusty, committed suicide Thursday night after opening fire in a screening of the movie Trainwreck at a Lafayette, Louisiana theater- killing two others and injuring nine.

Houser also owned two short-lived bars - Rusty's Buckhead Pub which was open for just two years in Lagrange, Georgia between 1998 and 2000 and Peachtree Pub which was open for a year and a half in Columbus, Georgia and closed in 1980.

He lost his liquor license at Rusty's Pub in 2001 for serving minors, and responded by hanging a flag the size of a bed sheet on the building featuring a swastika for several week.

He said this was because the police were acting like the Nazis.

'The people who used it - the Nazis - they did what they damn well pleased,' Houser told the LaGrange Daily News of the swastika symbol at the time.

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John Russel Houser, who goes by the name of Rusty, has been identified as the 59-year-old who killed two and injured nine in a shooting at a Louisiana movie theater Thursday night. He alter killed himself

Houser walking down a street in 2001 under a banner he is displaying to compare a recent LaGrange City Council decision to pull his alcohol license to Nazi tactic

Houser lost his liquor license at Rusty's Pub in 2001 for serving minors, and responded by hanging a flag the size of a bed sheet on the building featuring a swastika for several week

Houser was also arrested on arson charges in the 1980s after hiring a hitman to set fire to the law offices of a man who represented a string of pornographic theaters.

The hitman ended up being a police informant.

The lawyer, John Swearingen, agreed to not press charges, despite Houser allegedly saying he did not care if the man died, as long as he received mental health treatment.

NBC News obtained a 1989 mental evaluation of Houser in which Swearingen, said; 'He was very intent on burning down the law office. He was some kind of religious fanatic and as I recall he said God told him to do it.'

Houser, the son of a former city tax commissioner and a law school graduate, also ran for office at one point trying to obtain the same position, but withdrew from the election after he was accused of stealing his opponent's lawn signs and a reporter informed he that the paper would be reporting on his previous arson arrest.

'He came to many City Council meetings and he was in tune with a lot of issues that were going on in the community,' said former Columbus Mayor Bobby Peters.

'He was very outspoken, highly intelligent, really didn't trust government and anything about government. He always thought something was going on behind the scenes. He came across with a very conservative agenda.'

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Online profiles connected to Houser are also revealing more details about him and paint a picture of a paranoid man who felt that American economic policy and morals were bringing about an end of days.

'America is so sick that I now believe it to be the enemy of the world. I know next to nothing about Iran, but the little I do tell me they are far higher morally than this financially failing filth farm,' Houser, who goes by Rusty, wrote in a December 2013 post on an apparently conservative Christian website called Fellowship of the Minds.

Also that month, Houser wrote on his Facebook, asking for help translating Iranian newspapers.

He spoke highly of the Middle East as well in his profile for the site InterPals, an online community for making friends around the world.

'Learning about the people of the Middle East is most important to me.They have been painted as scum by the 'establishment media,' wrote Houser in his profile.

'It appears they are exactly the opposite, that they are family people.That is the highest status that a people can achieve, and it is what America has lost.'

He said he was hoping to makes friends with Middle Eastern people on the site.

In yet another bizarre Facebook post, Houser preached a strict adherence to the Bible, while condemning America at the same time.

'The bible doesn't ask me to like what it says, only to obey it. Death comes soon to the financially failing filth farm called the US.'

Many of Houser's posts dealt with what he believed to be an inevitable end of days, spurred on by disintegrating American morals.

Commenting on a news story about a man who was found murdered at his deer-processing business in 2013, Houser wrote: 'I am sincerely sorry for the loss of this fellow in the deer processing business. Most people over 50 in certain businesses are just as their parents were, rock solid morally.'

But when he continued, the post took a turn.

'I am also sorry for what is to come for the other very few moral souls left in the entire US. I am not sorry for the 90 per cent immoral population which will be meeting the same fate.

'Filth is rampant. That none have stood against it causes me to take rest in the worst than MAD MAX future which approaches,' Houser said.

Houser appeared to sympathize with the far-right Tea Party and extremist group the Westboro Baptist Church, online profiles connected to the man reveal. Above, a view of the theater where the shooting happened

Police described Houser as a 'drifter' who had been staying in a local motel (pictured) since early July

Houser also had a profile on the conservative website Tea Party Nation, and described himself elsewhere online as 'very conservative' and asked for help finding white-power groups.

And in a Twitter account connected to Houser's name, he once voiced support of the extremist Westboro Baptist Church.

'The Westboro Baptist Church may be the last real church in America [members not brainwashed],' Houser wrote.

In line with a far-right ideology, Houser apparently went on a Georgia radio show several times in the 1990s to preach against abortion.

Calvin Floyd, who hosted a morning call-in show on WLTZ-TV in Columbus, Georgia, says Houser also espoused other radical views, including his opposition to women in the workplace. Floyd, now 71, says he would put Houser on with a Democrat because 'he could make the phones ring.'

Floyd described Houser, as an 'angry man' who made 'wild accusations' about all sorts of local officials and topics.

'If you gave me 40 names and 40 pictures of people who might have done that, I wouldn’t have hesitated to point him out,' Floyd told The New York Times in an interview.

'I could just sense the anger was there. Maybe I should have been afraid of him. He had a very hostile personality at times.'

Houser appears to have posted this bizarre and racist account of the American economy last year

Above, the two and only tweets connected to an account under Houser's name

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, said it has had John Russell Houser's name in its files since 2005, when he registered at former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke's European-American Unity and Rights Organization conference.

In online forums, Houser wrote of the 'power of the lone wolf' and expressed interest in white power groups, anti-Semitic ideas and the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church, which protests soldiers' funerals, the center said.

'Hitler is loved for the results of his pragmatism,' Houser wrote in January on the website stateofmind13.com.

'There is no question of his being the most successful that ever lived. At this time the US is no more than a financially failing filth farm. Soon the phrase "ruling with an iron hand" will be palatable anew.'

In another post on the Golden Dawn website, he said: 'It is a shame Tim McVeigh is not going to be with us to enjoy the hilarity of turning the tables with an IRON HAND.'

On another site he wrote; 'Here is something that is truly funny: since I accepted this it came to me that the president is doing exactly what Tim McVeigh did,only the president is much more effective.

'The way I see it,the faster he wrecks this nation, which in no way resembles what it’s founders envisioned,the faster working people with morals may re-assume command.'

In that same thread he also wrote; 'For the few who will understand this, it is my hope that you will see to one preparation for the coming downfall, which will be worse than a Mad Max scenario.

'That preparation is not storing up canned goods, munitions,etc, but to gather what will be necessary to put in your families food to insure a painless and certain death should the need arise.'

Court records have also revealed that Houser's wife and family asked for a temporary protective order in 2008 against him, for 'extreme erratic behavior' and making 'disturbing statements.'

His wife also made a domestic violence complaint against him in 2005.

Above, a view of Houser's last address in Phenix City, Alabama. Authorities there say he was evicted from the home in 2014, and that he went back and poured concrete in the pipes and tampered with the gas lines

Houser also appears to have hung a Confederate flag out on the home's front lawn when he lived there in 2012. Above, a view of the home from Google Streetview in 2012

The documents said even though he lived in Phenix City, Alabama, he had come to Carroll County, Georgia, where they lived and 'perpetrated various acts of family violence.'

The filing says Houser's wife, Kellie Maddox Houser, 'has become so worried about the defendant's volatile mental state that she has removed all guns and/or weapons from their marital residence.'

The protection order was at least temporarily granted. She filed for divorce in March.

The family members also tried to have him involuntarily committed in 2008 'because he was a danger to himself and others,' they said in court documents.

A judge approved the order at the time and Houser was taken to a hospital in Columbus, Georgia.

While he was at the Carroll County Sheriff's Office awaiting transfer to the hospital, Houser said to his wife that once he got out of the hospital, 'he would continue his erratic as well as threatening behavior' to try to stop his daughter's wedding, the filing said.

It's still uncertain exactly why Houser decided to target the crowd at the screening of Trainwreck, a movie about a young woman struggling with commitment, as he killed himself in the immediate aftermath.

Authorities are investigating whether the gun was bought legally and whether it was purchased by Houser.

It is known that he was denied a concealed carry permit in Alabama in 2006, according to the sheriff of Phenix City where Houser last had an address.

The sheriff said Friday that they had denied the permit based on an prior report of domestic violence and arson.

He also confirmed that Houser had been getting treatment for mental illness in the area in 2008 and 2009.

Police say that Houser was a 'drifter' and that his last residence was in Phenix City, Alabama. They say he had been staying in a hotel in Lafayette since early July and that his only connection to the area was an uncle who once lived there, but has been dead for 35 years.

While he has a long criminal history, Police say Houser hadn't been arrested very recently. His past charges include selling alcohol to a minor and arson - arrests that date back 10 to 15 years.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal addresses the media during a briefing outside at the Grand Theatre

Victims: Mayci Breaux, 21 (left), and 33-year-old Jillian Johnson (right) have been identified as the two killed in the Thursday massacre. Nine other were injured

In Alabama, records show Houser had four speeding tickets and one no-seatbelt ticket between 1981 and 2003.

Alabama court records show Houser filed a small claims court lawsuit in 2004 claiming he was injured when he donated plasma at a Phenix City donation center. He asked for $1,800 to pay his emergency room bill and for a narcotics prescription. The case was settled, according to court records.

On his LinkedIn profile, Houser describes himself as an entrepreneur who holds degrees in both accounting and law but his last listed job was as a real estate developer nearly a decade ago.

Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia, said the gunman, John Russel Houser, earned an accounting degree from there in 1988.

His brother Rem Houser, told CNN he just saw his brother last month for the first time in 10 years.

'He just needed some money to continue moving on, living, surviving, so we gave him some, and that was the last we heard of him. We hadn't heard of him in probably 10 years prior to that, and hadn't heard from him since,' he said.

He then revealed that after giving his brother the money he did not speak with him again.

The mother of Houser also sent him $5,000 in recent weeks while he was scrounging round food banks in towns throughout Louisiana, police revealed late Friday.

Houser, who was living in a $54-a-night Motel 6 on the outskirts of the university town was clearly hurting for money, said Col. Mike Edmondson, the head of the Louisiana State Police.

'It was $5,000 — in cash,' Edmondson told Daily Mail Online after a press conference outside the Grand Theater where, less than 24 hours earlier Houser had emptied two 10-round magazines into a crowd watching the comedy movie Trainwreck.

It is also known that Houser, who police describe as a drifter, went to a church-run food bank in Lake Charles, Louisiana, 75 miles east of where he carried out his deadly rampage, where he got cash and food.

Police know that Houser, 59, had planned an elaborate exit. He parked his car on the west side of the 16-screen megaplex right next to an emergency exit which led directly from Theater 14 where Trainwrecks was showing.

He left the keys on to of one of his tires so he could quickly grab them and drive away. Inside was a wig he could put on to hide his identity.

But two police officers, a sergeant and a patrol officer were already in the parking lot comparing notes when the 911 call came through alerting cops to the shooting. They rushed in as he was coming out.

'He re-entered the theater, fired three more rounds and with the fourth round he took his own life,' said Lafayette police chief Jim Craft.

A candle light vigil in memory victims is held at the Quad on the campus of University Louisiana Lafayette

Craft, Edmondson and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal spoke to reporters minutes after touring the theater. Edmondson said he saw Craft close to tears as they saw how audience members had abandoned their soft drinks and snacks and ran for their lives.

That debris remained in the blood-spattered theater. In the lobby a woman's purse still sat at the concessions stand where it had been abandoned. One room was still set up ready for a children's birthday party.

'I followed the chief in there,' said Edmondson. 'This was the first time for him to go into that particular theater — and this is his town.

'I know him well as a friend and as a father, but this was a horrific scene in there to see where the projectiles were, the sticks coming out of the seats, to see the blood on the floor — to actually smell it.

'I watched his reaction, I watched him take it all in. This is a small town right near a university and that is why we must do everything we can to bring closure to these families.'

There were more than 100 people in the theater complex, 25 of whom were watching the Trainwreck screening. None of those were armed, said Craft.

Off-duty police normally provide security at the theater on Friday and Saturday nights only, he said. As Thursday is a relatively light night for attendance there was no security in the complex.

A candle light vigil in memory victims is held at the Quad on the campus of University Louisiana Lafayette

A candle light vigil in memory victims is held at the Quad on the campus of University Louisiana Lafayette

Edmondson said state police have been combing through Houser's online comments. 'He makes rants about the government, he makes rants about different situations around the United States and around the world. We will pull each one of those out, we will interview as many people as possible.

He said they had already started to investigate in Lake Charles and Baton Rouge, towns he is known to have visited. 'Why was he there? Who was he talking to? What can we get out of that as we put this puzzle that has many, many pieces, back together.

Two women were killed and nine others hit by bullets, all of those are expected to survive. Craft said four have been released from the hospital, three are now in stable condition and the ninth is critical 'but that may perhaps be upgraded to guarded tonight,' said Craft.

Craft said the fact only two people lost their lives was 'something of a miracle.' Jindal put it down to the heroics of the two officers who 'ran toward danger not away from it,' and the fact that the city police had recently bought special kits to care for officers downed by gunfire. Those kits were used to help the victims, and Jindal said, saved many lives.

Houser used a high-point, .40 caliber semi-automatic handgun,' said Craft. It was bought legally at a pawn shop in Phenix City in February 2014. All 20 shots from the two magazines were fired, said Craft. Fifteen of those shell casings have been recovered. Police believe he deliberately picked a seat toward the back of the theater so he could shoot those in front of him.

Breaux was sitting directly in front of Houser with her boyfriend Matthew Rodriguez.

'This wasn’t a sudden burst,' said Jindal. 'It appears this was slow and methodical. This was a gunman who took his time. It was barbaric, an execution.'

A candle light vigil in memory victims is held at the Quad on the campus of University Louisiana Lafayette

Now cops are reconstructing the scene inside the theater. 'Our investigators have been able to determine which seats people were in when they were shot,' said Craft. 'Once we are able to interview witnesses regarding where they were seated we will be able to recreate the scene in the theater just seconds before the shooting took place.

Pat Gregory, a spokesman for Faulkner University in Montgomery, Alabama, said Houser enrolled in the college's law school in 1994 and graduated in 1998, but the Alabama State Bar said it did not have record of House ever applying to take the bar exam.

Overnight, police searched his 1995 blue Lincoln Continental and motel room for possible explosives and found nothing. They also went to Alabama to interview his family and friends, but it appears he has become estranged.

Lafayette Police are asking for the public's help in the investigation, and say anyone with information on Houser should call 337-291-8650.